STACK #221 March 2023

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This time two decades ago you could find us in the club, (with a) bottle full o’ bub; 50 Cent’s In da Club was thrashing everyone else in the charts, eventually becoming the biggest single of 2003.

THIS MONTH:

Adam Lambert (p14)

Jen Cloher (p10)

In 2001, a pipe organ in Germany’s St. Burchadi church began playing the 1987 piece As Slow As Possible by the late John Cage. That performance is still going – and it isn’t due to finish for another 618 years, on September 5, 2640. The next note change is due on February 5 next year – the sounding of a D4 – and will be held for 730 days. DYK?

Gorillaz (p6)

DMA’S (p10)

Looking back at the stories behind our favourite album covers, this month it's Lana Del Rey's Born to Die (2012).

Lana Del Rey's second album Born to Die radioed sleazy and cinematic Americana glamour to the world, and up until two years ago, most fans presumed the cover art and album images were shot in the Hollywood Hills. But a rumour became truth when it was discovered that the pale green diamond-windowed bungalow and pick-up truck which feature throughout Born to Die 's bewitching aesthetic are located in... Watford. Where's Watford, you ask? It's a town in East Hertfordshire, England, generally regarded as a very dull "slice of British suburban mediocrity" (to quote one English-born STACK staffer). Its residents were as shocked as anyone to learn of the news; local newspaper the Hertfordshire Mercury deemed it "arguably one of the most mind-blowing facts of the decade, maybe the century" in its 2021 article on the revelation. No one has since discovered what exactly Lana was doing in Watford at the time, though the artist has hinted she lived in London for some years at the beginning of her career. ZKR

Did you know that there's a

tunnel under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey is out March 24 via Universal.

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